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1、Every kid needs a champion TED演讲稿全英文TED演讲 Every kid needs a champion I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the past 40 ye
2、ars Ive done the same thing. And so, needless to say, over those years Ive had a chance to look at education reform from a lot of perspectives. Some of those reforms have been good. Some of them have been not so good. And we know why kids drop out. We know why kids dont learn. Its either poverty, lo
3、w attendance, negative peer influences. We know why. But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection, relationships. James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship. George Washington Carver s
4、ays all learning is understanding relationships. Everyone in this room has been affected by a teacher or an adult. For years, I have watched people teach. I have looked at the best and Ive look at some of the worst. A colleague said to me one time, They dont pay me to like the kids. They pay me to t
5、each a lesson. The kids should learn it. I should teach it. They should learn it. Case closed. Well, I said to her, You know, kids dont learn from people they dont like. (Laughter) (Applause) She said, Thats just a bunch of hooey. And I said to her, Well, your year is going to be long and arduous, d
6、ear. Needless to say it was. Some people think that you can either have it in you to build a relationship or you dont. I think Stephen Covey had the right idea. He said you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like seeking first to understand as opposed to being understood, simple things like
7、 apologizing. You ever thought about that? Tell a kid youre sorry, theyre in shock. I taught a lesson once on ratios. Im not real good with math, but I was working on it. And I got back and looked at that teacher edition. Id taught the whole lesson wrong. (Laughter) So I came back to class the next
8、day, and I said, Look, guys, I need to apologize. I taught the whole lesson wrong. Im so sorry. They said, Thats okay, Ms. Pierson. You were so excited, we just let you go. (Laughter) (Applause) I have had classes that were so low, so academically deficient that I cried. I wondered, how am I going t
9、o take this group in nine months from where they are to where they need to be? And it was difficult. It was awfully hard. How do I raise the self-esteem of a child and his academic achievement at the same time? One year I came up with a bright idea. I told all my students, You were chosen to be in m
10、y class because I am the best teacher and you are the best students, they put us all together so we could show everybody else how to do it. One of the students said, Really? (Laughter) I said, Really. We have to show the other classes how to do it, so when we walk down the hall, people will notice u
11、s, so you cant make noise. You just have to strut. And I gave them a saying to say: I am somebody. I was somebody when I came. Ill be a better somebody when I leave. I am powerful, and I am strong. I deserve the education that I get here. I have things to do, people to impress, and places to go. And
12、 they said, Yeah! You say it long enough, it starts to be a part of you. And so (Applause) I gave a quiz, 20 questions. A student missed 18. I put a +2 on his paper and a big smiley face. He said, Ms. Pierson, is this an F? I said, Yes. He said, Then whyd you put a smiley face? I said, Because youre
13、 on a roll. You got two right. You didnt miss them all. I said, And when we review this, wont you do better? He said, Yes, maam, I can do better. You see, -18 sucks all the life out of you. +2 said, I aint all bad. (Laughter) (Applause) For years I watched my mother take the time at recess to review
14、, go on home visits in the afternoon, buy combs and brushes and peanut butter and crackers to put in her desk drawer for kids that needed to eat, and a washcloth and some soap for the kids who didnt smell so good. See, its hard to teach kids who stink. And kids can be cruel. And so she kept those th
15、ings in her desk, and years later, after she retired, I watched some of those same kids come through and say to her, You know, Ms. Walker, you made a difference in my life. You made it work for me. You made me feel like I was somebody, when I knew, at the bottom, I wasnt. And I want you to just see
16、what Ive become. And when my mama died two years ago at 92, there were so many former students at her funeral, it brought tears to my eyes, not because she was gone, but because she left a legacy of relationships that could never disappear. Can we stand to have more relationships? Absolutely. Will y
17、ou like all your children? Of course not. And you know your toughest kids are never absent. (Laughter) Never. You wont like them all, and the tough ones show up for a reason. Its the connection. Its the relationships. And while you wont like them all, the key is, they can never, ever know it. So tea
18、chers become great actors and great actresses, and we come to work when we dont feel like it, and were listening to policy that doesnt make sense, and we teach anyway. We teach anyway, because thats what we do. Teaching and learning should bring joy. How powerful would our world be if we had kids wh
19、o were not afraid to take risks, who were not afraid to think, and who had a champion? Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be. Is this job tough? You bet. Oh God, you bet. But it is not impossible. We can do this. Were educators. Were born to make a difference. Thank you so much.
